Stock-guard.



No. 772,364. PAT'ENTED 001?. 1a, 1904.

P. MALLIA.

STOCK GUARD.

. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

w hforgey Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL MALLIA, OF MILANO, TEXAS.

STOCK-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,364, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed. January 19, 1904. Serial No. 189,698- (No model.) 2

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL MALLIA, acitizen of the United States, residing at Milano, in the county of Milan and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Stock-Guard, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices employed for preventing cattle, horses, and other stock from passing from roads or streets to the railway right of way or to other property or from field to field upon farms and for similar purposes, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and produce a device of this character which may be erected in any required locality without the necessity for forming pits or excavations or otherwise changing the surface of the ground or adjacent structures. N

\Nith these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in cerform of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to Without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing its advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the claim made therefor.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the improved device applied to a section railway-track. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, enlarged, of one of the rotating guard members. Fig. 4 is 'a bottom plan view of a portion of the supporting-frame.

The improved device consists of spaced side bars 12, preferably of L iron or steel of suitable size and strength and resting across the ties 11. The bars 12 will be set at each side of the railway-rails l0 and also across the ends of the ties 11, and if a greater width is required extension members may be employed to increase the lengths of the ties, but generally the guard structure will terminate at the ends of the ties. Mounted for rotation by pivots 14, operating in spaced apertures'in the vertical webs of the side bars 12, are members 15, preferably in roller .form and provided with radially-disposed to, as by bolts or screws 17, the sides of the trough-shaped members forming the radiallyextending guardwings. The members 15, with their guard-wings, thus extend transversely of the area between the rails 10 and between the rails and the ends of the ties 11 and will be so spaced that the free ends of the wings 16 will just clear one another when rotated.

The bars 12 are connected at suitable intervals by tie-bars 18 to retain them in proper relative position. Moreover, the base-flanges of the side bars are directed inwardly in order that the upright members of the bars may be placed against the adjacent edges of the bases of the rails, thereby to obtain the maximum width for the device and to reduce to the minimum the spaces between the treads of the rails and the respective side bars Without interfering with the passage of the flanges of car-wheels. By placing the side bars against the'bases of the rails said bars are braced against outward strains, while the tie-bars brace the same against strains which would tend to draw together the bars. By this arrangement of parts it is obvious a simply-constructed and effective device is produced which may be installed upon the ties at any desired point and without changing the structure of the ties or otherwise effecting contiguous objects.

The device requires no pits or excavations to install it in operative position and may be adapted to any size of rails or gage of track.

The three sections composing the device may be manufactured in quantities and shipped to the required points and placed in position by merely driving a few holding-spikes through the side bars and may be thus arranged by the ordinary workmen employed for the usual railway-track laying or repairing work.

The members 15 will generally be of hardwood and all the other parts of steel or iron.

A device thus constructed and installed will effectually prevent stock of all kinds passing over it, as the rotative Wings will by moving beneath the feet repel them and cause them to retreat, and will thus effectually guard the right of Way or other property from the intrusion of stock.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is The combination with cross-ties and rails thereon, of a stock-guard comprising anglebars supported upon the cross-ties with their base-flanges directed inwardly and their upright members engaging the flanges of the rails, tie-bars connecting the bases of the angle-bars, and rollers journaled in the upright members of the angle-bars and provided with radially-disposed longitudinal blades, the tie-bars being located in intervals between adjacent rollers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PAUL MALLIA.

Witnesses: &

J. O. NEWTON, W. A. BROWN. 

